i wanna stress again here that i have no plans of having possums.gay be a "big" instance.
i keep this instance purposefully small, not only to manage it better, but to keep it a *community* first and foremost. instances with large user counts are not ideal in my eyes, defeating the ethos of fediverse's ideal goal of decentralization
if everyone is packed up in a few big instances (as it is on the lolisho/cub side of fedi, unfortunately), it causes a lot of cascading issues. such as bad moderation, power imbalances, and of course, outages affecting huge swathes of people.
the power imbalance is of utmost importance to me, as someone who actually adheres to anarchist principles. power does indeed corrupt, and time and time again i've seen it happen on fedi; admins and mods abuse their powers, willfully or not. and it causes huge schisms in communities that would've never happened if it were all split up into smaller instances. people who are "power first, community second" rapidly get out of touch with what the community actually desires, making decisions that impact everyone negatively.
so... that's why i'd never want this instance to go above 100 users. heck, i'd think it's a lil bit crowded as it is right now, if there were more active discussions from everyone on here.
and hey, it's not to say i'd ever be perfect myself, but i'd hope if i make a wrongful decision that my community will call me out on it, and that i'll be more than glad to listen to feedback. with greater power comes a lesser chance that important feedback will be taken seriously, and that happens regardless of how much you try to work for it.
pearl-clutching over fiction and fantasy is just dumb all ways around, especially when it comes from dumbasses who are into dark topics in the first place
cough cough i'd also like to ask that one person who was into non-consensual hard vore (which involves killing people btw), then blocked me over my cub art, what they think too.
if my cub art somehow indicates i want this for real, then are you saying you want to eat people for real without their consent? lmfao
i just don't get the double standards about fantasy lol. like if you're gonna say what i do is indicative of some secret desire i have to do this in real-life (spoiler: no the fuck i don't you nimwit), then what the fuck does that say about you being into stories about enslaving people non-consensually lmfao. you saying you want to do that?
(story about plant aliens coming to nonconsensually enslave humanity to turn them into their sex slaves) people: "waow that so cool"
(me drawing porn but i say the characters are teenagers and they consent with each other) the same people from above: "what the fuck. what the fucking fuck. that is so unethical, i'm going to say you literally want to do this for real, and thus you should be executed"
the fact my art is being spread around like this is kinda nice lmao, especially since... i've basically abandoned all places except fedi, since everywhere else sucks or nobody notices me there
@veloxin yeahhhh it's all over aethy tbh lol (well, not literally all over, but you're bound to find it by looking at the instance timeline long enough)
@veloxin there's so many transmasc cubs out there, i want more transfem cubs because, frankly i probably make up a big chunk of the transfem cubs drawn lmao
